The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges
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Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Israel, Germany,
It is already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic will have dire economic consequences, and collective thought is being applied to what policies can better ensure societies’ resilience and their quick and dynamic recovery once the crisis is over. Corporate governance scholars can help devise sound and effective policies for this purpose. This global webinar convened scholars, practitioners and policymakers with the aim of sharing evidence-based insights for the common good.
Topics included, but were not limited to:
·         Corporate social responsibility in war-like times
·         Corporate governance digitalization
·         The role of institutional investors and stewardship
·         Takeover defences and M&A trends
·         Bond markets and bankruptcyÂ
·         Corporate purpose in times of crisis
·         The governance implications of emergency laws and government bailouts
·         Securities regulation (disclosure, short-selling bans, etc.)
·         ESG and Impact investingÂ
·         Systemic risk and financial stability following exogenous shocks
A collection of related articles by ECGI research members is available here
Event References:
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: Fed to the Rescue: Bankruptcy’s Role in the COVID-19 Crisis (Edward R. Morrison, Andrea C. Saavedra)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: Wall Street CARES!: Who Gets the Hidden Subsidies Under the CARES Act? (John C. Coffee, Jr.)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: The ECB’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic (Isabel Schnabel)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series:Â How Banks and Fintechs Can Help Small Businesses Survive COVID-19Â (Todd Baker, Kathryn Judge)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: Easing the economic aftermath of a global pandemic (Mark Roe, John Coates)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: Bankruptcy and the coronavirus (David Skeel)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: Extreme times, Extreme Measures: Pandemic-Resistant Corporate Law (Luca Enriques)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series- Fed to the Rescue: Unprecedented Scope, Stretched Authority (Lev Menand)
Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering
 (Renée Adams, Attila Balogh)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: Corona and Financial Stability 4.0: Implementing a European Pandemic Equity Fund (Arnoud Boot, Elena Carletti, Hans-Helmut Kotz, Jan Pieter Krahnen, Loriana Pelizzon ,Marti Subrahmanyam)
GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series: How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic (Dorothea Ringe, Wolf-Georg Ringe)
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The schedule for the event was as follows:
Time (Melbourne) AEST | Â Local time | Â University |
09:00 – 11:00 |  | Monash University, Melbourne |
11:30 – 13:30 | 10:30 – 12:30 JST/KST | University of Tokyo Seoul National University |
14:00 – 16:00 | 12:00 – 14:00 GMT+8 /CST | National University of Singapore Peking University |
16:30 – 18:30 | 09:30 – 11:30 IDT | Tel Aviv University IDC Herzliya, Israel |
19:00 – 21:00 | 11:00 – 13:00 CEST | Goethe University Frankfurt |
21:30 – 23:30 | 13:30 – 15:30 CEST | Swedish House of Finance |
00:00 – 02:00 | 15:00 – 17:00 BST | University of Oxford Imperial College London |
02:15 – 04:15 | 12:15 – 14:15 EDT | Columbia University |
04:30 – 06:30 | 14:30 – 16:30 EDT | Harvard University |
07:00 – 09:00 | 14:00 – 16:00 PDT | Stanford University Yale University |
The sessions were recorded and are published on the ECGI website.
An initiative of ECGI and the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC).
Queries to be directed to: Webinars@ecgi.orgÂ
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